Socrethar the Eternal Bug

Hello! Me and a friend of mine were trying to do the Glory of the Hellfire raider achievement for our Infernal Direwolf. Everything went pretty great up until Gorefiend we had a bit of trouble with him despawning but got it after a few tries. After this we went onto Socrethar. Who starts the fight in a mech called the Soulbound Construct. You’re supposed to dps down the construct which will then make the boss eject from the mech and you take over and trap some spirits that come out of a blue portal (1 of 3 portals) with one of the mech’s abilities. Now, before the bulk of the fight even started me and my friend noticed something having both tried this a while ago before we quit in the middle of BfA. The mech was taking A LOT of dmg and i mean A LOT. It was dead within a few casts from the boss when I recall it being pretty tanky. The boss cannot be taunted, it cannot be interrupted, nothing. This wasn’t what made the fight impossible to do though as with a bit of planning you could get in right before the ghosts spawned and trap them before he kills it. The main problem was that after he killed the mech you were in he was SUPPOSED TO get back in it. he did not. His spirit was glitched in the air. You couldn’t target him, you couldn’t kill the mech which was stuck at 1 hp. This pretty much left you with the option of spent 10 minutes dying, or if you could vanish or feign death that would work too. This made the fight literally impossible to do for me and my friend. Unless we’re missing key info. You can’t kill the boss when he’s like that. I don’t think this is a new bug either. Please fix this Blizzard.

TL;DR. Fight bugged, can’t complete the achievement even with two people. Fix this blizzard. I pay $15 a month, buy the new expansions, and invest hours of my time into this game to try and get mounts such as this and this kind of idiocy happens.

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This happened to my friends and I too when we just did it. This post is from 2021…and it is now 2023 with the same bug? Seems kinda stupid considering you cannot progress the Raid without completing this boss fight. So can never continue.

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Also having this issue. We thought we were doing something wrong but glad (I guess?) to see that it’s a bug. Kinda mad though as I missed out on Dreanor entirely and wanted to do old content.

Loot chest is located at the eastern wall of the Amphitheater after you defeat Socrethar. Hope this helps!